Apple founder Steve Jobs is to star in a new comic. Here are 10 things you
didn't know about him.

1. He was adopted. Steve Jobs’ birth parents are Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah Jandali, who put him up for adoption because they weren’t married when he was born. He was later adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs, a middle-class American couple. He only found out who his biological parents were aged 27.

2. He was a fruitarian during the 1970s. Fruitarians are a subgroup of vegans who eat only the fruit of plants. Now he is a strict vegetarian.

3. His heroes include Dave Packard, Bob Noyce, and Andy Grove, the founders of Intel, and Bob Dylan.

4. He owns more than 100 pairs of Levi 501 blue jeans. The rest of his daily “uniform” consists of New Balance trainers and a black St. Croix turtleneck sweater.

5. Steve Jobs chose the name Apple for his company because he admired the Beatles’ Apple Records. This later led to a legal battle between Apple Corp, owned by Beatles band members Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono. The dispute was settled later in February 2007.

7. He was mistakenly declared dead in 2008 when the financial news wire Bloomberg published an article stating he had died due to pancreatic cancer.

Bloomberg quickly recalled the article, but the story had already spread around the world.

8. He is related to Homer Simpson. Kind of. His biological sister Mona Jandali was abandoned by their birth parents and decided to take her take her stepfather’s name, becoming Mona Simpson. She married television writer and producer Richard Appel, who worked on The Simpsons and appropriated his wife’s name for that of Homer Simpson’s biological mother in the episode “Mother Simpson”.